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Castro's Cuba is isolated; the guerrillas who once spread havoc through Uruguay and Argentina are dead, dispersed, or running for office as moderates. And in 1990, Nicaragua's Sandinistas were rejected at the polls by their own constituents. Are these symptoms of the fall of the Latin American left? Or are they merely temporary lulls in an ongoing revolution that may yet transform our hemisphere?
This perceptive and richly eventful study by one of Mexico's most distinguished political scientists tells the story behind the failed movements of the past thirty years while suggesting that the...

An unfettered, probing dialogue between Mexican andAmerican political analysts on the complex relationship between their countries.
Few nations are as closely interrelated as the United States and Mexico. Few relationships between nations are so prickly. America's inveterate problem-solving strikes Mexicans as clandestine imperialism. Mexicans are accused of ignoring the flow of drugs through their country; Americans are accused of saddling Mexico with their drug problem. Americans brood over the influx of Mexican immigrants; Mexicans worry that their culture and traditions are being...

This volume covers topics including: phase-reversal zone plates and diffraction telescopes; Fresnel conic mirror; variations on the Fresnel zone plate; zone plates and their aberrations; zone plate interferometer; and Fourier-transform hologram by zone plate.

Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, genannt "Che", war bereits vor seinem Tod am 8. Oktober 1967 eine Legende, ein Mythos, der das Lebensgefühl und die Ideologie einer ganzen Generation weltweit geprägt hat. Die Biographie von Jorge G. Castaneda, "flüssig wie ein Roman" (Tomás Eloy Martínez), beschreibt Che Guecaras Leben von den bürgerlichen Anfängen in Argentinien bis zu seinem Tod des Guerillo in Bolivien. Sein Buch ist zugleich eine Darstellung der Zeitgeschichte Kubas und Lateinamerikas von Beginn der Aufstände in der Sierra Maestra 1956 bis zum bolivianischen Abenteuer. Er stellt "ein...